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My secret shame

Cathy, 2/26/07

So. Um. Here goes:

I actually … sort of … found Cathy funny today.

I mean … not hilarious or anything, but … I actually laughed. Well, “laughed” is a strong word. Strictly speaking, I exhaled out my nose a little harder than usual. Still and all, I need help. I know it.

Apartment 3-G, 2/26/05

I didn’t cover Sunday’s Apartment 3-G, mostly because I don’t think it’s particularly cool when comics encourage kids to do drugs. But now that I’ve seen Monday’s strip, I have to say that it’s one of the more egregious instances of content recycling in recent memory:

Apartment 3-G, 2/25/07

I know that the soap opera strips have to spend Monday recapping Sunday because not everyone gets to see the Sunday strip, but this week Apartment 3-G seems to have mainly tweaked the dialogue and taken out the Margo panels. And is removing Margo from an installment of Apartment 3-G ever a good idea? No, no it is not. You could show three panels of Margo reading the newspaper and sneering at no one in particular and it would be more gripping than anything that ever happened to Tommie.

Blondie, 2/26/07

There are so many layers of insanity to this strip that I barely know how to approach it. Do the police ever ticket drivers for excessive musical volume? Does Dagwood labor under the assumption that the theme from Bondanza can never be played too loudly? Was he sitting at a stoplight, his subwoofers causing all the cars around him to vibrate, only instead of blaring Master P as God intended, he instead treated the world to that all-too-familiar “dun da duh dun da duh dun da duh dun da DAHH DAHHHH”? Still, what disturbs me the most is that somewhere out there in Blondie land, there’s a radio station dedicated to classic TV theme songs. I’ve been telling people for years that the 517 different channels available on satellite radio will eventually destroy all that’s decent about our society; maybe someone will finally listen to me now.

They’ll Do It Every Time, 2/26/07

“How it is dept.: Libertariana and Rando are sick of their taxes being used to fund city schools and parks for poor people, so they move into a condo complex that keeps the proles out. But howzat? Homeowners Associations can also force you to pay for improvements for the common good? OH YEAH!!!” I’m surprised the acknowledgment line didn’t read “Anita and Sol, Unnamed Heavily Armed Encampment, Somewhere in Montana.”

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 03:43 am and is filed under Apartment 3-G, Blondie, Cathy, They'll Do It Every Time.

288 responses to “My secret shame”

AppleGirl
February 27th, 2007 at 3:49 am [Reply]

TDIET – I have a vacant townhouse up for sale in Northern Virginia that would be perfect for Catastra and Arfo. No raise in assessments ever. No improvements ever.
Jazz
February 27th, 2007 at 4:02 am [Reply]

Sorry, this is a bit off subject, but did anyone else notice the Get Fuzzy comic from valentines day http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20070214.html.
This reminded me of two things…

First -> this ask metafilter thread in which the taste of oral sex is compared with a 9 volt bat. http://ask.metafilter.com/52203/I-dont-want-my-pussy-to-taste-like-rain-I-want-my-pussy-to-taste-like-pussy
Second: Last year (was in St. Vals day?) in which Get Fuzzy listed the typical holiday meals… thanksgiving turkey, christmas goose and valentines day beaver…

am i the only one seeing a pattern here?
The Avocado Avenger
February 27th, 2007 at 4:18 am [Reply]

A3G – Well, looks like they DID include the Margo strips. Seriously, all they’ve done is taken that 2/25 Sunday strip and turn it into several weekday strips. I do think Margo looks a little more Margo-ing mad in today’s installment. More so than the 2/25 Sunday strip, at any rate.

#2 Jazz – IIRC, on LiveJournal there was a lengthy thread in the Get Fuzzy group about the beaver. Which I guess goes without saying.
Happy Happenstance
February 27th, 2007 at 4:29 am [Reply]

MT — Looks like everything for the scheme is in place. Dastardly Dan is ready for his dive. He’s put on his frogsuit.
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 5:50 am [Reply]

It would be the QED confirmation of a just and benevolent God if white-flighters Catastra and Arfo moved into Charterstone.
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 5:51 am [Reply]

BTW – this page is taking ages to load this morning – did somebody piss off Chennux? He’s been known to do that…
benro
February 27th, 2007 at 5:58 am [Reply]

MW – “There is something I don’t want to wait a minute more to do there…”

WTF? Is this strip being translated from Latvian?
Timbo
February 27th, 2007 at 6:02 am [Reply]

TDIET: I know I do it everytime… Every time I read it I check the copyright date to see if it was written in the twenties or thirties.

By the way a normal three to four year old is around three feet tall. A doorknob is three foot off the ground. The kids in Family Circus are one and a half foot tall. Thank you.
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 6:10 am [Reply]

If I wasn’t sitting on my fat ass scanning the ‘Mudge’ I’d be jerking 180 kilos right now.
Debt On
February 27th, 2007 at 6:47 am [Reply]

You laughed at Cathy? I think they have support groups for that kind of thing…
The Photocopiest
February 27th, 2007 at 6:51 am [Reply]

1. It’s becoming increasingly obvious to all of us, I think, that A3G’s Luann is experiencing her “visions” due to poor ventilation: something in the old building is making her hallucinate Warren G. Harding showing up to help her paint.

2. I think it’s also obvious that when this storyline wraps up, we’ll enjoy a hearty lecture on how buildings before the 1950s routinely used Agent Orange as an insulator, before ending with a “or maybe it was a real ghost!” stinger.

3. Josh, typo on “Bonanza.”
Sheilagh
February 27th, 2007 at 6:52 am [Reply]

Castrata. CASTRATA? There’s a backstory here that would be soooooo much more interesting than their stupid condo woes…
Succulent Peachman
February 27th, 2007 at 6:52 am [Reply]

Geez Louise, that Blondie has a bonanza.
bup
February 27th, 2007 at 6:54 am [Reply]

Bon-Danza?

*points and laughs*
Cafemusique
February 27th, 2007 at 7:03 am [Reply]

#8 – Come on, if you had to put up with their antics for that many years, you’d move the doorknobs so high they couldn’t reach, too!
stinky pete
February 27th, 2007 at 7:43 am [Reply]

Since A3G is recycling Sunday’s strip into two daily strips, I’ll recycle what I said about Sunday’s next-to-last panel:

Is Eric greeting Margo, or is he finishing her sentence? Try it both ways!

Meanwhile today’s Ziggy observes that post office employees may treat fragile packages in a rough manner. How this fact has escaped mention in any other comic strips or TV shows for the last 60 years is a mystery.
Pinback65
February 27th, 2007 at 7:44 am [Reply]

A ticket for playing music? Dagwood must live in that town from Footloose.

Not, uh, that I’m familiar with plot points from Footloose, or watch it every time it shows up on VH-1. That would be almost as sad as involvement with a community theater production of Grease. Which, again, I’d know nothing about.

Sigh…
Drewbob
February 27th, 2007 at 7:49 am [Reply]

RM- What? Foreplay between consenting, heterosexual adults? I…but….how….what….no…..

JP: I didn’t know robo-butler had the righteous finger of justice. I though Mary Worth had sole ownership of that.

FW: The play ground is open!
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 7:55 am [Reply]

#12 sheilagh: that’s CatASTRA, as in short for Catastrophe. However, Arfo worries me. Short for Arfo, the Dog-faced Man? Or a former African-American who has underdone a complete but botched michaeljacksonization but keeps a remnant of his former self in a misspelled name? Inquiring minds must know…
Scott Simmons
February 27th, 2007 at 8:08 am [Reply]

Did Luann really just claim that she now knows ‘what genius feels like’? Isn’t that like my cat sitting next to me while I code a subroutine thinking she knows what programming feels like? Luann met the faded ghost of genius years after it crumbled to dust, and it’s practically a miracle she didn’t mistake it for a bad burrito she had for lunch the day before.
TheMagicMel
February 27th, 2007 at 8:13 am [Reply]

Today, I learned that cancer sex is HAWT.

Thank you, Batiuk.
AhClem
February 27th, 2007 at 8:13 am [Reply]

TDIET represents a quantum leap in the strip’s time frame, since condo associations are a late 20th century phenomenon. What’s next? Push-button phones? TV sets with VHF and UHF tuners? Transistor radios? The mind boggles!
GotFuzzy
February 27th, 2007 at 8:16 am [Reply]

Arfo is Barfo’s unevil twin. The Gallant to Barfo’s Goofus, if you will.

MW: The tortured phrasing is bad enough, but what really squicks me out is how much Jeff’s daughter looks like Mary. It’s like Giella just put some helmet hair with long enough bangs to cover the forehead wrinkles on random Mary heads and call it a day.

Frazz: Is it a Curmudgeon shoutout today? I’m thinking yes.
Squawk
February 27th, 2007 at 8:22 am [Reply]

A3G: I don’t normally make suggestions like this, but “I AM ENERGY AND I AM ALL AROUND YOU” would look great on a t-shirt.
AhClem
February 27th, 2007 at 8:27 am [Reply]

The bubbles surrounding Luann on her hallucinogenic mind-trip closely resemble those behind Rex and June in today’s RMMD. There are several plausible explanations:

1. Albert Pinkham Ryder likes hot MILFs with bullet-bras better than flower-painting airheads, and has decided to haunt that strip instead.

2. Elvis’ gun is really a water pistol, and he’s spraying the same drugs into the Morgan household that they use in the ventilating system of Luann’s building.

3. Both artists have severe OCD, and have discovered the joys of playing with circle drafting templates.
Calico
February 27th, 2007 at 8:29 am [Reply]

MW – #23-haha, Mary Potato Head, $1.59!

Jeff insists that Mary doesn’t have to stick around and can go back to Biddystone – it’s really a thinly veiled “Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out – just go, already!”

I’m wondering if Mary will find Ella dead or ill, with huge rats and old Twinkie wrappers strewn about. Nice job, Worry Worth, that would make for 2 exterminations from the ’stone – both subletters, BTW.

MT – What a swell king-size froggy-maybe Dan turned into this fine hefty creature and Mark has to kiss it to turn him back into a stud again.
Ten Day Dinosaur
February 27th, 2007 at 8:30 am [Reply]

Just so you all know – I laughed really hard at Blondie. Since I was in the campus cafeteria, where everything tastes worse than Funky Winkerbean with the art of Cathy, drizzled lightly with Anthony sauce, I needed that laugh.

Seriously, if you were at a stoplight, and you heard the familar thump of really loud music, so you hunkered down in resignation to another piece of rap with the bass reaching critical… And then you realized it was the Bonanza theme. That would be so awesome!
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 27th, 2007 at 8:36 am [Reply]

Eh, Cathy. The only thing I found funny about it was the disco-like effect of the three people in a row doing that Horshack arm in the air thing. Which is pretty much the only visual intensifier Guisewite knows.
atrip
February 27th, 2007 at 8:36 am [Reply]

All I have to say about Pluggers today is “Amen!” Now I’ll go back and hide in my nice, safe corner.
stinky pete
February 27th, 2007 at 8:36 am [Reply]

Meanwhile, in (DT)GT, Helen Marzano has discovered Mary Worth’s older sister: “I always know what’s going on, yes I do!”

The renderings of the older folks in Panels 1 and 3 clearly indicate that GT’s artists can actually draw realistic-looking people, so why do all the teenagers in this strip look so freakish?
Chip
February 27th, 2007 at 8:37 am [Reply]

Obviously none of you are from New York- It’s illegal to play music in your car too loud! (We can’t use our cellphones either.)
P.S. – get with the times! Dagwood obviously ripped a CD with his favorites tunes – or jacked in his I-Pod!
Militaman
February 27th, 2007 at 8:38 am [Reply]

How dare you make fun of Montanas. We know who you are and where you live. Once we get out of the compound we are coming after you.
Tom Bondurant
February 27th, 2007 at 8:40 am [Reply]

I used to blast “Ride Of The Valkyries” out of my giant station wagon’s speakers when I was in college, so “Bonanza” wouldn’t be that much of a stretch. Never got pulled over, though.

However, the Blondie strip did remind me of this guy, stopped for playing Bill O’Reilly too loud.

As for A3G, I can’t decide if the Lu Ann plot is more Star Wars or Xanadu. I see Obi-Wan Kenobi but I hear Olivia Newton-John….
Calico
February 27th, 2007 at 8:41 am [Reply]

Squawk – great idea! The shirt would have to be rendered in Peter Max type art, or be tie-dyed, and one would have to act like Crispin Glover while wearing it. A shirt with a purpose.
Calico
February 27th, 2007 at 8:51 am [Reply]

#7 – this is an online translation into Italian-
Ci Ã¨ qualcosa che non desideri attendere un minuto di piÃ¹ per fare lÃ
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Yup, right Mary. Did you meet Borat on your travels? Or was it the drugs you swallowed on the plane?
Saxman
February 27th, 2007 at 8:52 am [Reply]

A3G sanity check

So let’s get this straight. Margo is sure that Eric has spent the night with Luanne. She rushes over to find out for sure and confront them. In the lobby, there is Eric! What a reflief. NOT.

How does she know she didn’t just catch Eric on his way out (as opposed to on his way in)?

Margo, smell the coffee girl! Don’t believe any of Eric’s lame excuses until you go upstairs and check out Luanne’s loft. For instance, if she is gushing and strangely energized, with a wistful smile on her face and wearing yesterday’s cloths…. Well, I’d slug Eric.
James Schend
February 27th, 2007 at 8:53 am [Reply]

Hey, if we have to keep politics out of the comments for fear of the “Cockpit” you should keep them out of the snark also. Paying for something you don’t want and didn’t ask for always sucks, especially if it uses up money for things you did want. Commie.
Saxman
February 27th, 2007 at 8:57 am [Reply]

A3G

I can forgive the A3G recycling because of the addition of the gratuitous:

Flash Jolt!!

Until this moment I never knew the sound a ghost makes when it turns into energy. Those sound techs on Ghostbusters II had it all wrong.

Seriously, I think the problem is that the Sunday strip had too much content. Usually the Sunday’s just recap. This Sunday introduced two major plot developments (that Ryder can energize Luanne and that Margo met Eric in the lobby). This stuff pretty much had to be repeated to maintain the narrative.
Eyebrows McGee
February 27th, 2007 at 8:58 am [Reply]

“Do the police ever ticket drivers for excessive musical volume?”

Yes. Here in Peoria, not only can they ticket you for excessive musical volume (audible from 75 feet away or something like that), but they can IMPOUND YOUR CAR for it.

PS – I just assumed Dagwood had the Bonanza Theme on CD and was listening to, like, “Greatest TV Theme Songs of All Time” or something that he bought off one of those cheesy TV music commercials. He should have sprung for Monster Ballads. It’s much better.
Abbey the Wonderdog
February 27th, 2007 at 8:59 am [Reply]

Rex is going to cross on over to the other side today.

At least for today.

But I bet June cant give him what he wants as well as his golifing buddies. They really suck.

BARK! BARK! BARK!
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 27th, 2007 at 9:05 am [Reply]

BC: Hell, if we’re on a slippery slope of abridged civil liberties, authoritarian violence, and police state corruption, we might as well sit back and laugh about it. Before or after the waterboarding. It’s all good.

JP: Mrs Cecil is looking particularly Patrick Nagle (sp?) today. Barreto must have dug out his old vinyl copy of Rio.

RMMD: Man, did you see the psychedelic background in the last panel? Far out, man!

A3G: Eric is starting to look like a demented children’s show host. He and Margo could be a match made in… jeez, you got me.
jules
February 27th, 2007 at 9:15 am [Reply]

A3G: Apparently they’re going to spend all week recycling the Sunday strip, because Tuesday’s strip looks oddly familiar as well! Well, good. For my money, you can’t say the line “I am energy and I am all around you” enough times.
Bender
February 27th, 2007 at 9:18 am [Reply]

Pluggers: My wife has a bottle of perscription muscle-relaxers with a “M” carved on every pill. Man, it’s like Pluggers isn’t even trying anymore…or ever.
Chupper
February 27th, 2007 at 9:19 am [Reply]

Hold me closer, Tony BonDanza
Perky Bird
February 27th, 2007 at 9:35 am [Reply]

Re today’s Mary Worth (2/27)—Mary says there’s something she can’t wait to do when she gets back to Charterstone. Who wants to place a bet that that something is (a) thank the old psychic biddie (Ella?) for telling her to listen to her dreams and that (b) Mary will return to Charterstone only to find that Ella has passed away! Ella was “drawn” to move to Charterstone only to help Mary, and having fulfilled that purpose, she has died. Ooooooh, spoooooky!
So, anyone wanna place a bet? Either that, or Mary’s just in a hurry to get back and hire ABBA’s garage-cleaning service…
shortmikeshort
February 27th, 2007 at 9:36 am [Reply]

I met Frank Bolle, artist for Apt. 3G, at the NY Comic Con over the weekend. He struck me as very curmudgeonly and fairly humorless, which is exactly what I expected.
Dennis Jimenez
February 27th, 2007 at 9:42 am [Reply]

JP – The artwork is kind of reminding me of that 1960s Marvell comic book style like Dr. Strange. Strange indeed.
cheech wizard
February 27th, 2007 at 9:46 am [Reply]

JP – Take 1 Neddy.

Ride hard and put up wet.

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. etc. etc. etc.

= 1 Angela.

I can’t believe that nobody else has picked up on this.

Time to get on the elevator, Neddy.
Gabe
February 27th, 2007 at 9:52 am [Reply]

It’s all right if a pick a little fight, Bonanza!

(yes, there are words. Also, there’s words to the orginal Star Trek theme. The 60s had weird laws about theme songs)

Yes, there are places with noise pollution laws. North Island in San Diego has such a law. Probably cause it’s a rich people area that happens to have a Navy base full of young people who listen to the rap at the high volumes driving through their neighborhoods to and from work.

I thought Cathy was cute yesterday. So you’re not alone.
ltrftp(not so first time)
February 27th, 2007 at 10:04 am [Reply]

27
10 Day
ATTT!

37
James
It’s his microphone.
Plus, when he has kids, he’ll try to annex the ‘burbs back into the city.

At least that’s what I did.
rich
February 27th, 2007 at 10:08 am [Reply]

Cathy: Weird that after 30 years Ms. Guisewite still hasn’t figured out a more realistic way to draw mouths than as bowties (panel 4) or asshole sphincters (panels 1 to 3).

A3G: Wait’ll Luann finds out the guy pretending to be Albert Pinkham Ryder is just part of a guerrilla marketing campaign…probably for Schweppes.
Buck Ripsnort
February 27th, 2007 at 10:08 am [Reply]

Dammit Josh, you’re ignoring the all-important addition in A3G: “This must be what genius feels like.” As I said yesterday, that straight line must’ve drawn a million Curmudgeons and Proto-Curmudgeons to reply psychically, “It sure ain’t what genius LOOKS like!”

And I nominated “I am energy–and I am all around you” for Tshirthood YESTERDAY!
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 10:16 am [Reply]

I think Dagwood is a “What’s Happening!!” teevee theme music blastin’ kinda guy. Sorry, a Dingo ate my snark *sniff*(fo’ real.)
stinky pete
February 27th, 2007 at 10:21 am [Reply]

36, 38 Saxmane, since the group has more or less stopped writing “Gil Thorpe” when they mean “Gil Thorp”, are you just trying to stir things up by writing “LuAnne” when you mean “LuAnn?”
Dan
February 27th, 2007 at 10:23 am [Reply]

And no one mentioned Josh’s other typo, that it’s not Anita but ARNITA, an even-stranger name.

But now I’m just being pedantic.
Frank Drackman
February 27th, 2007 at 10:23 am [Reply]

Crankshaft was a riot today…his complaint of erectile dysfunction,,for which he’s spent years building up the courage to go to the doctor…gets blown off by the overworked primary care doc…that’ll teach you to go through the system..you can probably get a few viagras cheaper from the hoodlums that ride your bus every day..
MrG
February 27th, 2007 at 10:33 am [Reply]

TDIET: Interesting…Catastra and Arfo seem to have discovered the only detached, single family, ground-level ‘condos’ in the country.
Kate
February 27th, 2007 at 10:37 am [Reply]

Why would the suburbs have condos? Don’t condos exist primarily in built-up areas so people who don’t have enough money for a lot of land can still own property? Suburbs are not urbs; they’re removed from the urb so that there’s space. For houses.

Or, because I’m a perpetual renter, do I just sound like LuAnn here? Maybe that’s it. Maybe I should just slink back to the energy field. Bye.
Bitter Scribe
February 27th, 2007 at 10:41 am [Reply]

TDIET–The followup almost writes itself: “Arfo grumped constantly about being assessed for the new swimming pool, but guess where he all spends his time splashing around all summer? Ohhh yeahhh…”

BTW, about that “Ohh yeahh” stuff–does anyone remember the voiceover lead-in to the Lina Wertmuller film “Seven Beauties”? “The ones who voted for the Right because they were tired of strikes…ohhh yeahhh…The ones who have never had a fatal accident…ohhh yeahhhh…The ones who have had one…ohhh yeahhh….” Do you suppose that’s where he gets it?
Bitter Scribe
February 27th, 2007 at 10:43 am [Reply]

#58–You’d be surprised. Condos go up wherever people (like me) want to own their homes but don’t want the hassle and expense of keeping up a detached structure and private grounds.
ltrftp(not so first time)
February 27th, 2007 at 10:45 am [Reply]

59
Bitter Scribe
I thought it was from the Twix ad.
Or the Nestea Plunge.
zeeba
February 27th, 2007 at 10:46 am [Reply]

2/27 musings

The Dallas Morning Snooze says that Cathy Guisewite and Darby Conley are on vacation. Since I can no longer believe the DMN regarding cartoonist vacations (see last month’s GF controversy), I had to check em out on the chron. Yes indeedy, both are on vacation. DMN is off the hook.

GROANERS:

Baldo:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2007/2/27&name=Baldo

FC:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20070227&name=Family_Circus

What the boxcar? BC:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2007/2/27&name=BC

FW:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20070227&name=Funky_Winkerbean
Ha, ha, Batiuk, like you haven’t ever told us before, cancer sucks.

Lio:
http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/lio/
Giant duck from MT makes a guest appearance.

MT:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20070227&name=Mark_Trail
You know, I don’t think Sally’s very bright. I’m worried about what Dan will do to her when she blows their cover. She’s kind of like the Molly or Lucky character this time around.

OBH:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2007/2/27&name=One_Big_Happy
Yeah, Ruthie, you go girl! I’m jealous I didn’t think about naming diagrams for myself when I was in college struggling through philosophy class.

NS:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2007/2/27&name=Non_Sequitur_pan
I get it that the wife (I guess) has redecorated the pad a la Garden of Eden, but is that HER naked in the center of this tableau, or is it a naked Big Bird????
Calico
February 27th, 2007 at 10:48 am [Reply]

# 46 – he needs his own personal ghost, then.

Maybe the dude who drew “The Yellow Kid” or someone like that.
Chupper
February 27th, 2007 at 10:54 am [Reply]

#59 Bitter Scribe, I always imagine the TDIET “ohh yeahh” in the Kool-Aid Man voice as he bursts through a wall. “OH YEAH!!!”
Lettuce
February 27th, 2007 at 10:56 am [Reply]

Jeez, not the “I am energy” line. Seriously, I’ve never seen a ghost work harder to get into a woman’s pants. We get it! You’re a sensative dead artist who can turn into cocaine! Now just bed her already! You likely had her at “hello.”
dyslexia
February 27th, 2007 at 10:57 am [Reply]

I think what is most amazing about the current A3G storyline is this:

Luann is having what appear to be paint fume-induced hallucinations. The cure for this would be to get out into the fresh air. Yet, when she realizes that she should get some fresh air, her own hallucinations are telling her to stay inside.

It’s official: Luann’s own subconscious wants her dead!
Ribinin
February 27th, 2007 at 10:57 am [Reply]

#58 – A suburb often becomes an urb in a few years. And big cities are rife with condos both from conversions of apt buildings and new construction.

Now I think I will tear off the corner of my package of “tranquilizers”, pour some into my hand (no worry about melting and getting messy) and pop a few as I check what’s up with my other “soaps”.
Tracey
February 27th, 2007 at 11:00 am [Reply]

Josh, your Bondanza remark made me laugh and tear up at the same time. My late (and perpetually drunk) uncle used to talk about how much he loved “Bazanda” (the TV show and the cheesy I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Steak-house) all the time. You haven’t lived until you heard him try to sing the theme song, screaming nonsense words and an occasional “BAZANDA” at the top of his drunken lungs, and never using the same melody as the song.

I also snorted at today’s “Cathy,” too. I’m off to find my local chapter of Sucky Comic Strips Anonymous and admit to my addiction.
Craig
February 27th, 2007 at 11:00 am [Reply]

Some things you just come to expect in this life. Strife in the Middle East. Democrats bickering with Republicans. Inanity on “The View.”

So how does it happen that we get a Sunday Luann centered around the eponymous character’s excessive and strongly pungent defecation, and it doesn’t make the Comics Curmudgeon?

I’m retiring to the tub with a pint of Ben and Jerry’s until the world makes sense again.
David V. Matthews
February 27th, 2007 at 11:01 am [Reply]

The howl-larious Cathy strip is a rerun from 2001.

FLASH JOLT!! reminded me of Peter Parker’s nemesis Flash Thompson (who later became Peter’s pal and acquired a Vietnamese girlfriend–the first interracial relationship in Marvel Comics?).

FLASH JOLT!! also reminded me of that All in the Family episode where a raincoat-wearing guy flashes Edith and Mike in a police station. (I usually don’t think about that series, which has aged badly. And yes, I know this is my second AITF reference on this site.)

FBOFW: Oh, joy. A WEEK’S worth of dog puns. Why not a storyline about Lawrence? He deserves some attention. And so do Elizabeth’s Japanese friends, and Paul, and Kourtney.
ohyes
February 27th, 2007 at 11:03 am [Reply]

JP: She’s finally found the fetish that turns him on: Fifties era bullet bras. Is she wearing a girdle too?

MW: Dr. Jeff says, “Don’t let me keep you, Mary. You must have something to do! Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry? Bye!” He needs to get her out of there before the ladies he was sleeping with, Stateside, start arriving to welcome him back.
rich
February 27th, 2007 at 11:04 am [Reply]

FW: Take a tip from Smirky McBlondie — when your pal who nearly died from cancer remarks that her “energy level is picking up,” get all nudge-nudge-wink-wink with her and naturally assume she has to be talking about sex… YUCK.

(Good thing she wears an earring, though, or people in town might just mistake her for Wally Winkerbean.)

On a less yucky note, JP: Mmm, Angela!…full lips, dark eyebrows…ahh, me like…!
Lettuce
February 27th, 2007 at 11:05 am [Reply]

Those ain’t condos. I think Catastra and Arfo haven’t figured out yet that they’re dead and living in purgatory — which we all know consists of single-unit ranch houses. Thus the ghostly apparitions of their fellow tenants arguing for eternity about where to put the new vending machines — and their newfound telekenisis.

Meanwhile, L’il Arfo is flipping their cat-filth-covered Bucktown Chicago home into a three-times-the-sale-price yuppie townhouse.
fishmorgjp
February 27th, 2007 at 11:05 am [Reply]

#49 Gabe says: Itâ€™s all right if a pick a little fight, Bonanza!

(yes, there are words. Also, thereâ€™s words to the orginal Star Trek theme. The 60s had weird laws about theme songs)

Story goes that after Alexander Courage wrote the original theme for Star trek, Gene Roddenberry added inane lyrics to it so that he would be credited as ‘co-creator’… Mr Courage was not pleased.
gnome de blog
February 27th, 2007 at 11:06 am [Reply]

“Addled and dizzy, LuAnn…” sums up 46 years of A3G perfectly, except for the Margo part.
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 11:14 am [Reply]

MW If there is a shortage of mock turtlenecks in the world, it is because Mary Worth cornered the market in them, in every color imaginable.
He’s A Big Dog …and drawn by Disney.
DtM Buck up, kid. It’s not called Ruff the Menace, y’know.
A3G Uh oh, Margo’s in for some heartache! Eric: “Margo, I’d like you to meet my fiance, St. Pauli Girl!”
FW I fail to care; I fail to care; I fail to care.
RMMD Young Niki will fall prey to the Poor Man’s Tommie Lee, while Rex and June will be gettin’ it on amidst Lawrence Welk’s bubble machine.
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 11:16 am [Reply]

I thought Josh was making some comment leading up to Tony Danza but thank God that moment must have passed him by.
smacky
February 27th, 2007 at 11:16 am [Reply]

I thought I was channeling an artistic genius once, but I was just light-headed from my roommate repeatedly farting in our tiny apartment.
ohyes
February 27th, 2007 at 11:19 am [Reply]

A3G above: That sly dog Albert, he took her hand and placed it right where it felt good, and then he burst into orgasmic thrills! Best. Handjob. Ever.
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am [Reply]

#79:ohyes: in that case, Albert should have said, “I am energy and I’m all over you.”
Old Fogeyette
February 27th, 2007 at 11:25 am [Reply]

MT: “Dan got up early and went down to the lake!”
….where he was eaten by a ginormous frog.

That’s all I’ve got this morning. Still feeling sad from the last thread.
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 11:25 am [Reply]

A3GToday’s strip: It MUST be what genius feels like for Luann, since heaven knows the poor baby hasn’t got a [margo]ing clue what even basic thought process is like.
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 27th, 2007 at 11:26 am [Reply]

I believe the words to the original Star Trek theme are as follows:

Ah-ah ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ahhhhh… Ah-ah ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ahhhh… Etc.

There are, in some places, laws against excessive noise for the same reason there are any other laws: people who live in communities with other people need to respect those other people’s rights, which include the right not to be roused from bed at 3am by somebody’s distorted Roland 808s. If that’s jackbooted thuggism to you, maybe you should live in the middle of nowhere scribbling theses in teensy handwriting on pages with no margins. Grrr. Sorry – send me to the Cockpit, but it irks me when people act as if their “liberties” mean they can be assholes with impunity.

Still and all, I like the idea of blasting something unexpected, like the Bonanza theme. When I was younger, that would have appealed to me: I had a record I found at a rummage sale of Muzak from the early ’70s, and I always wanted to blast that from my car…
Scott
February 27th, 2007 at 11:30 am [Reply]

In an alternate universe, Dagwood was NOT promptly pulled over in his car, and given a “noise pollution” ticket. No, he was drawn and quartered by cattle-rustlers, hired by Daisy and her hatred of being forced to watch mind-numbing intimate moments between Dagwood and Blondie with Dagwood wearing only a bolo-tie and chaps, demanding that Blondie stays in character and calls him Hoss.
GypsyMoth
February 27th, 2007 at 11:32 am [Reply]

A3G: I’m waiting for Luann and the Ghost to toast each other with a pint of Guiness. Brilliant!
MrP
February 27th, 2007 at 11:36 am [Reply]

The people doing the Sunday strip seem to have gotten the right idea. Luann really DOES look drugged in those, even when she’s “energized” and painting away with twitchy motions. All the pretty colors, Luann, ALL THEH PRETTZY CHOLORSZ!
queek
February 27th, 2007 at 11:39 am [Reply]

the origins of the Gynormous Ubiquiduck explained in Lio!

and a Farley shout out in Frazz.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 27th, 2007 at 11:39 am [Reply]

Pluggers: That is the BIGGEST frickin’ bag of M & M’s I’ve ever seen. Do they make them that big?

Today’s Wizard of Id and B.C. show that Brant Parker and Johnny Hart have some idea what “trans fats” and “interrobangs” are, or at least have heard the terms. There’s something vaguely unsettling about this, sort of like finding out your grandparents are aware of the slang meaning of the word “69″.

Hey, hold on, is the ant teacher in B.C. topless?
benro
February 27th, 2007 at 11:45 am [Reply]

Here’s the lyrics to the Star Trek theme (courtesy of trekkieguy.com. I can’t figure out how they fit into the melody, though.

Beyond the rim of the starlight
My love is wandering in starflight

I know he’ll find in star-clustered reaches
Love strange, love a star woman teaches

I know his journey ends never
his star trek will go on forever

But tell him while he wanders his starry sea
Remember me, remember me
gh
February 27th, 2007 at 11:48 am [Reply]

Dear Dingo, won’t you come out to play
Dear Dingo, join the thread today
The site is up, but we are blue
It’s not so warm â€˜cause we miss you
Dear Dingo won’t you come out and play?

Dear Dingo open up your eyes
Dear Dingo see the sunny skies
Thereâ€™s always words that make us sting
But youâ€™re a part that makes us sing
Dear Dingo won’t you open up your eyes?

Scroll around round
Scroll around round round
Scroll around

Dear Dingo let me see you smile
Dear Dingo like a little child
A single smile to us bequeath
At least we know youâ€™ve got your teeth
Dear Dingo won’t you let us see you smile?
benro
February 27th, 2007 at 11:48 am [Reply]

BC – I would somehow expect the teacher to be emitting a real interrobang (is it “?!” ??) in the last panel, otherwise most people won’t get the “joke”.
NEW-ME
February 27th, 2007 at 11:49 am [Reply]

FW: Yeah cause when a cancer patient gets a burst of energy it usually means the drugs are not working anymore and they are getting ready to die! What a f****** jerk. I hope he gets cancer and dies…… SOON
Anonymous
February 27th, 2007 at 11:49 am [Reply]

Today: Tuesday!

(Start again…)

Today:

RMMD: Uh, yeah, that’s very nice…uh… you know you have a kid in danger out there, right, strip?

A3G: Nice emotional rollercoaster there, Eric. Yeesh!

BBailey: Yeah, sounds like a perfect name for a New Age group to me.

RMMD: …No, seriously… Niki….Elvis… gun…. hell-LO-O!?…

MT: Frog(in a low, almost John Goodman voice): “Hey, folks. Can you believe this? Who are all those badly-drawn clip-art people, anyway? Your eyes are all drawn to me, right? I thought so. Cheers, folks.”

RMMD: …Well?….I’m waiting, comic strip…. Don’t forget the kid in trouble over there, ‘kay?….Um….

FC: That did it! Billy’s writing for FOOB, isn’t he?

FOOB: Well, here’s another bad excuse for wordpl–
RMMD: Oh, come ON, RMMD! What happened to the whole Niki thing, huh? Will the police get there in time? Will Rex and June get there in time? Will Wilson and Nolan get there in time? …No kidding, will they?!

MW: Mary continues, in thought balloon, “…Mainly, I need to get back and cover up the Aldo murder before Jeff finds out!” Next panel, Jeff (per his “subtle hint” in panel 1): “Thank God, I thought she’d never leave!”

RMMD: Yeah, W&N, I get it… bubbles…soap opera strip… ha hahaWILL YOU GUYS FREAKIN’ PAY ATTENTION ALREADY! Niki, Elvis, cops, get a move on!

(Obligatory Python reference – my obligatory Firesign Theater reference is at the cleaners) And now for something completely different: RMMD…
--MC
February 27th, 2007 at 11:57 am [Reply]

Gabe: the Bonanza theme, with lyrics, was a minor hit for Lorne Greene back in the palmy days of the 60s.
Fans of the “Flaming Carrot” comic remember it as the music they played to bring the grievously injured Flaming Carrot back to life.
If Dagwood was playing that version of the song, the cops probably pulled him over because he was singing along with it. “Hoss and Joe, Adam know, every rock and pine .. “
The Porridge Bird
February 27th, 2007 at 12:03 pm [Reply]

Cathy: Too bad Cath can only stretch this thing to a four-panel gag. Greater forces–mostly British–could take a bragging gag and stretch it into a whole week including Sunday. “If I didn’t have to work twenty hours a day down the coal mine for minimum wages and no health insurance, I’d spend each day playing tennis against the testosterone case next door!”

“If I didn’t have to spend my ghost-spawned energy to create flower still-lifes, I’d be learning to wrestle, sparring with the giant lucha nut across the street all day, and then donning a black cape and mask in the evening to become the Night Shadow, defender of the righteous, destroyer of evil! I’d spend all night preventing crime from the smallest muggers to the most evil supervillains including the eerily familiar Lady FingerQuote, and by the end of the night I’ll be so knackered that they’ll have to use choppers to airlift my all-muscle body back to my apartment!”

“If I weren’t spending so much time taking weeks and weeks to reveal a secret plan which will help me gain thousands of undeserved dollars, I’d be mountain biking! I’d travel all over the Rockies, doing battle with bears, giant talking geese, and promiscuous beavers until, in a adrenaline-rushed stupor, I’d spiral off a cliff and land in a deep ravine where I’d be ripped to pieces by hundred-pound vultures until the Mountain-Biking God Elrod says Dan, for your intense stupidity, you’ll be continually reincarnated–as yourself! And each lifetime, you’ll have to grow up to this very moment where you’ll fight the exact same bear, spiral off the exact same cliff, and get eaten by the exact same hundred-pound vultures only to be reincarnated again to live the same stupid life with the same stupid death! MUA HA HA! THE CIRCULAR ELROD HAS SPOKEN!”

…

“My vultures would be bigger.”
The Porridge Bird
February 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pm [Reply]

“If I weren’t so busy cleaning out garages, I’d be… well, let’s leave it at that.”
jules
February 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

#83 Gadge – I thought the words to Star Trek were “Oooo-OOOOOO-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooooooooooh…”

I’ve heard tell that The X-Files theme has words too: “The X-Files is a show….with music by Mark Snow….”
gh
February 27th, 2007 at 12:13 pm [Reply]

#81 Old Fogeyette

Remember that day awhile back when we were all purging? Today, it’s mourning. I got nothing remotely funny to say.
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 27th, 2007 at 12:14 pm [Reply]

Many songs best-known as instrumentals do in fact have words. For example, the famous theme from The Bridge on the River Kwai: it’s usually whistled, though, you know why?

They’re dirty.

– > stolen from the Smothers Brothers, I believe.
Mibbitmaker
February 27th, 2007 at 12:14 pm [Reply]

#93 is me, dammit! I put all that work into this one, too!

Josh, if it’s at all possible, I’d really love to have my username replace the “Anonymous” on that, please?
Elizabeth J. Anderson
February 27th, 2007 at 12:17 pm [Reply]

Scaduto’s “clever” spelling of “assessment” is particularly offensive, it looks like something from a sleazy TV ad that would run during Maury Povich…. “Tired of those a$$e$$ment charges? Sell that condo for CA$H!”
Ran
February 27th, 2007 at 12:17 pm [Reply]

Luann: Brad finally admits to his gay freind that he has no penus.

Mary Worth: Nice way of saying: “Get the _____ out, already!”

Reading Cathy makes me think mass murderers may be on to something.
anne
February 27th, 2007 at 12:20 pm [Reply]

#s 8 and 15:

FC is bizzaro Momma — instead of the parents being weirdly short, it’s the kids. Maybe they should inter-breed and create normal people.
Foobar
February 27th, 2007 at 12:20 pm [Reply]

“Beyond the rim of the starlight,
my love is wand’ring in star flight.
I know he’ll find
In star clustered reaches
Love, strange love
A star-woman teaches.

I know his journey ends never.
His Star Trek will go on forever.
But tell him while
He wanders his starry sea,
Remember,
Remember me. ”

Ugh.
Gabe
February 27th, 2007 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

Gadge, I hope that wasn’t directed at me. I simply thought it was funny the only place I ever saw signs specifically telling people to turn down their stereos.

But now, at least, I have an idea for vacation. My car, a set of 20s and a subwoofer, and directions to Gadge’s neighborhood.
anne
February 27th, 2007 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

I guess FW cancer lady doesn’t need to worry about waxing, at least. Maybe that’s why cancer sex is so hawt. Mmmm, so smooth!
Foobar
February 27th, 2007 at 12:24 pm [Reply]

83- It irks me, sir, when my theses are derided simply because of where I live and how I write. I have a dream that a man will be judged not by his penmanship but by the content of his rambling, paranoid diatribes.
NEW-ME
February 27th, 2007 at 12:25 pm [Reply]

Dingo! Please Please come back. I love you man!
Foobar
February 27th, 2007 at 12:25 pm [Reply]

Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? served for a time as our personal rider anthem.
Old Fogeyette
February 27th, 2007 at 12:27 pm [Reply]

#98 Thanks, gh. I knew you’d understand. *sniff*
Indiebass
February 27th, 2007 at 12:35 pm [Reply]

Holy [MARGO]! Has anyone noticed the AWESOME Hot Pointing Action in panel two of today’s Judge Parker? Cedric points with such fury they needed to add awesome “Point Lines” emanating from every part of his being.

Mary Worth should drink deeply from the Cup of Humility after Cedric brings the Mother[MARGO]ing Pain!
Prouster
February 27th, 2007 at 12:37 pm [Reply]

Why is it that any time anyone makes a point in “Cathy” it looks like they’re dancing in Saturday Night Fever?
Mountain Mama
February 27th, 2007 at 12:38 pm [Reply]

I got it! The mystery behind Gil Thorp!

Remember the episode in Star Trek: TOS where Spock was helping his old captain get back to that planet with the telepathic aliens, the Talosians?

The pretty girl on the planet in real life was disfigured because they didn’t know how humans were supposed to look, right?

Well, they are now drawing Gil Thorp! That must be it. That has to be it. Please, God, let that be it. I refuse to believe normal human beings are getting paid to draw that abysmally.
Drewbob
February 27th, 2007 at 12:41 pm [Reply]

#64 The “Oh Yeah” from TDEIT is more like Macho Man Randy Savage’s than the Kool-Aid pitcher.
Lyman Returns
February 27th, 2007 at 12:42 pm [Reply]

MW-”There is something I don’t want to wait a minute more to do here.”

My first thought: Don’t comic syndicates have editors? At least one or two?

My second thought: Uh-oh, Doctor Jeff’s kids better leave the room, lest they end up clawing their own eyes out to escape the horror before them!

FBOFW: After all the inanity of the past few weeks it’s nice to see this strip settle down and do some harmless slapstick and puns. I think this is the first back-to-back installments of FBOFW I’ve seen in months that haven’t made me want to put my fist through a wall.

Blondie: Yeah, people can get tickets for playing their music too loud while driving here, too. I’d like to think that a guy blasting the theme from ‘Bonanza’ would get a pass, though. Maybe the cop really hated steak or something. As for the choice of music…it seems utterly random, but come on, you can’t expect ‘Blondie’ to give a shout-out to a piece of music that was written after 1970…it’d go over the heads of their entire target demographic!

Beetle Bailey: Sarge is complaining he has nowhere to go and start fights. Um, I think that soldiers that go off-base and get into brawls generally get into a lot of trouble. Maybe Sarge has been around so long he knows how to play the system. By the way, Sarge, you can pick a fight RIGHT NOW…Beetle is right next to you! Maybe it’s just not the same…no pool cues or bar stools to use as weapons. Then you have today’s strip…YES, WE GET IT ALREADY, ZERO IS A STUPID IDIOT. That dead horse just hasn’t been beaten, it’s been resurrected, killed, and beaten over and over in a never-ending cycle akin to a Greek myth.

TDIET-If I were Arfo, I’d be more concerned about my exact duplicate, sitting just a few seats down. Maybe he’s Bizzaro Arfo! “Me love urban living! Me rent one-bedroom apartment in downtown high rise! Me want to live in culturally diverse area!”

Cathy: What the boxcar is a ‘climbing gym’? Isn’t that on a playground next to the see-saw and the swing set? You go, dude! Not only are you an out-of-shape sack of flab, you probably scare children and make parents nervous! You’re like Ted Bundy crossed with the Pillsbury Doughboy!

A3G: I want whatever she’s smoking, man. That’s some great stuff.
Poppinjay
February 27th, 2007 at 12:42 pm [Reply]

Just about every town or city has the noise law. When folks get up in arms about crime, police usually crack down on noise because it makes it appear that the situation is getting better.

And yes, there have been radio stations that have done an all TV theme format.

Too bad Dag wasn’t listening to the Rawhide theme to give a shout out to the recently departed Frankie Lane.
Howard Erk
February 27th, 2007 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

The lyrics to Star Trek and Bonanza are pretty much on par with the parody work that is done here.
James Mongostein
February 27th, 2007 at 12:46 pm [Reply]

“Iâ€™ve been telling people for years that the 517 different channels available on satellite radio will eventually destroy all thatâ€™s decent about our society; maybe someone will finally listen to me now. ”
Local radio (public and private) are the mediums that will last in our society, because of their human value. Satellite radio is just a random iPod of music and garbage that we usually don’t have on our current iPod. If you don’t listen to spoiled millionaires like Howard Stern every morning, then you can just listen to Richard Prior or Andrew Dice Clay for your pottymouth fillings; however, the local radio DJ probably had the same donuts from the same donut shop as you.
nsr
February 27th, 2007 at 12:47 pm [Reply]

The Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer is keeping an eye on Funky Winkerbean after the IED strip.

“We have internally implemented review steps to more closely monitor syndicated material. Also, I have spoken directly with our liaison at King Features and with Mr. Batiuk. I have mandated that we get a ‘heads up’ when such sensitive material is being transmitted, or, I told the liaison, we will cancel part or all of our business relationship with King.”
AhClem
February 27th, 2007 at 12:47 pm [Reply]

#109 – In this case, it should be renamed “Where in the world is our man, randy Dingo?”
Tracey
February 27th, 2007 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

Re: #99

You’re kind of right about the song being dirty. Turns out the song, the Colonel Bogey March, has several different versions. Some are vulgar, some aren’t. The version that we all know is not the original version of the song, either.

Wikipedia has the scoop. It’s a pretty interesting read if you’re interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bogey_March
merlinsulchek
February 27th, 2007 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

If genius is painting purple daylillies like a third grader, I want me some. Flash. Jolt. Yikes.
Dagwood Bonanza
February 27th, 2007 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

Blondie: In what way can that set-up derive a joke? It’s like, not since the Blues Bros. movie – the first one – was the Bonanza-theme even a remotely possible source of humor for a second. What generation is going to laugh at that? What does it take to be a comic-strip author, I’m going for it.

Apt3G: the “G” obviously stands for “idiots”
Mumbles
February 27th, 2007 at 12:54 pm [Reply]

FW: you know, among the many depressing ideas this strip has celebrated in the past, none curdles my stomach more than the idea of that nerdy, whiney Eugene Levy doppleganger getting some action.
Lynngineering
February 27th, 2007 at 12:57 pm [Reply]

#123 – ie Blues Bros. movie – “Rawhide” you mean, but the point is pretty much the same.

FBOFW: It’s always quiet before the storm, and this feels really almost TOO complacent…
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 1:00 pm [Reply]

What the ?! I think that WIKI should be called the “Colonel Bogus March”. Who ever heard of a march written by a guy named Ricketts? Theme for the Ministry of Silly Walks, maybe.
And wasn’t the theme from Rawhide in the Blues Brothers?
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 27th, 2007 at 1:01 pm [Reply]

I feel sorry for the young lady in the last panel of today’s Momma. Imagine: being in the comic strip Momma, and being one of the worst drawn characters. That would be kind of like belonging to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and being the flaky one.

(John Frusciante doesn’t read this blog, does he?)
anne
February 27th, 2007 at 1:03 pm [Reply]

Thanks, Blondie, for getting Bonanza stuck in my head. And CC for lodging it there permanently. I’m just going to go jump off of a tall building, now.
Hogen Mogen
February 27th, 2007 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

Is it just coincidence that Malice Fartmore attacks global warming as a hoax on the same day that Tom Tomorrow defends it?

By the way, don’t believe the hype. There is no controversy. Global warming is a fact, and is caused by humans, and we can do something about it, and it won’t wreck our economy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is an asshole.
Hogen Mogen
February 27th, 2007 at 1:06 pm [Reply]

#116 – Poppinjay: “And yes, there have been radio stations that have done an all TV theme format.”

Too bad he didn’t get a ticket for cranking up “Love Boat”.
lady penelope
February 27th, 2007 at 1:07 pm [Reply]

Tommie’s taste in men is more supernatural and entertaining than any LuAnn spectral encounter. I just figure she’s high on paint thinner again.
Kenny
February 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm [Reply]

the last time I laughed at a Cathy was the strip where the cast went down in a terrible plane crash, leaving no survivors. Anyone remember that one?
Ed Minchau
February 27th, 2007 at 1:10 pm [Reply]

#59, I think the source inspiration for that “ohhh yeah” stuff in TDIET is that song from back in the 80s by Yello. You know the one: “BOM BOM chick… chickchickaaaaahhhhh YEAHHHH BOMBOM Ohhhhhh Yeahhhhh”.

Today’s Shoe reveals Treetops deep dark secret: “Roz? These scrambled eggs are a little runny.”

Oh. My. God. They’re cannibals!
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 1:11 pm [Reply]

#83 Gadge – I once found a 45 that had a really punked-up version of the theme to Gigantor! I transferred it to casette and it became my driving-up-the-driveway-of-my-girlfriend’s-house music.
Hogen Mogen
February 27th, 2007 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

#89 – benro: Back in the late 70’s my older brother was a Trekkie (I swear, it wasn’t me – I only watched the show, ok?). He got some kind of 45rpm record with a Trek spoof on one side and the theme from Trek with the words included on the other side. They were both hilarious in their own way. If memory serves, it wasn’t even a real 45, it was some kind of vinyl sheet that you could play on a record player. Maybe they were two seperate items and I’m getting them confused with nearly 3 decades of other irrelevant stuff in between then and now. So, to answer your question on how they got those words to fit with that theme – badly, very badly indeed.
David C
February 27th, 2007 at 1:15 pm [Reply]

The backstory on the lyrics to the “Star Trek Theme” is basically that Gene Roddenberry wanted to horn in on the song’s royalties. As an instrumental-only piece, all the royalties would go to composer Alexander Courage; with lyrics, Roddenberry got half, just for spending 5 minutes writing some awful, unsingable lyrics to go along.
Johnny Q
February 27th, 2007 at 1:16 pm [Reply]

JUDGE PARKER: They need to improve their French. French people say “Tres bien,” not “Tres bon.” Also, they misspelled “amiable” as “aimable.”

BLONDIE: If there really is a radio station that plays TV themes, I hope they do BIG HAWAII.
Martin
February 27th, 2007 at 1:17 pm [Reply]

I always thought the Oh Yeah-h-h from TDIET sounded like that song from Ferris Beuller’s Day Off. You know, the bomp bomp chickachicka OHHHH YEEAAHHH song.
Hogen Mogen
February 27th, 2007 at 1:17 pm [Reply]

RMMD:
Rex: Ok, June, I give in. I’ll be the kid’s big brother. I’ll watch out for him and help him and guide him til the ends of his days.

Goes into the garage.

Rex: Oh, he’s dead. That was easy.
Martin
February 27th, 2007 at 1:18 pm [Reply]

Dang. Beaten to it. That will teach me to read everything before posting.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm [Reply]

#134 wille- I believe that “Gigantor” version was done by the Dickies. Also, remember when Bill Murray as the lounge singer on SNL sang the words to “Star Wars”?…
Hogen Mogen
February 27th, 2007 at 1:23 pm [Reply]

Funky: Panel 2: What is up with that lady? I flag her for inappropriate timing of “smirk”.
AirForbes
February 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm [Reply]

A3G: This is the first time ever that “Luann” and “genius” have been used in the same sentence.

#119: I see I wasn’t the only person who was disgusted with FW for faking us out like that and just pretending to blow up Wally. Oh wait…that’s not what they’re complaining about, are they.
Justafoob
February 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

Yes, the calm before the storm.

Near the end of the walk, John and Apwhil will find Gwampa’s and Iris’s frozen bodies, naked and in a carnal position at the base of Farley’s tree.

LJ is really into this Native Canadian stuff so this will be her way of introducing the old farts on an ice flow theme.
stinky pete
February 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

141 RGB:

“Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars
Give me those Star Wars
Don’t let them end

Oh Star Wars
If they should bar wars
Please let these Star Wars stay”
gump worsley
February 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

MW — Hey, whatever happened to Dr. Tran?

Oh, that’s right, they just needed an Asian name the first time around.

Hopefully Jeff will die because his kids won’t prescribe a more aggressive series of antibiotics, or whatever it was that Dr. Token called for.
MossMoses
February 27th, 2007 at 1:33 pm [Reply]

The background in panel 2 of RMMD today is a cheezy Windows 3.1 wallpaper bmp file.
Foobaphobe
February 27th, 2007 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

Predictions:
MW: On returning home, Mary Worth finds the witch Ella dead or at least almost dead, allowing MW to resume her role as unquestioned chief meddler.

FOOB: John and Elly’s dog-walking adventure leads them to his tiny dream choo-choo home, causing them to realize they have to move, so Michael et alia can stay in the Patterson manse, Liz can be booted out of the nest and land on Anthony, and April can be packed off for good to the farm and a lifetime nursing cows. Many puns along the way, too humorous to mention here.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

#145 Pete- “And what about the wacky scene, in that crazy Star Wars bar?”…or something like that.
dreadedcandiru2
February 27th, 2007 at 1:39 pm [Reply]

144 – Just as long as we don’t have to look at Mikerobe, I’m fime.
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 1:40 pm [Reply]

#141 – Red G.
The Norma Jeans did a version too. Why? I don’t know. The original was always good enough for this hipster.
Gabe
February 27th, 2007 at 1:40 pm [Reply]

You’re probably thinking of Helmet’s cover of “Gigantor” on the Saturday Morning Cartoon Soundtrack.
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 1:40 pm [Reply]

#139 Hogen Mogen – That made me do a spit-take with my soda!
nominate for COTW!
man behind the curtain
February 27th, 2007 at 1:42 pm [Reply]

MW — Mary is all about control. She couldn’t stand Ella because Ella’s powers were a threat to take away mary’s control over Charterstone. Mary missed jeff not becuase she loves him but because he was away from her contol. now that she’s brought him back and can keep an eye on him, she must rush back to Charterstone to make sure she maintains control. She is an uber-control freak.

FBOW — Finally Dad Patterson drops the A-bomb on the Lizard and we get to suffer through a week-long dog walking before we see Lizard on the inevitable path to a life or stupefying boredom with Granthony and stepmomdom.
Ian Cameron, PhD
February 27th, 2007 at 1:42 pm [Reply]

A3G – I think LuAnn has been eating paint chips.
Gabe
February 27th, 2007 at 1:42 pm [Reply]

Or not. Did the Dickies also cover it? I can’t imagine the Helmet cover being on a 45.
Gabe
February 27th, 2007 at 1:43 pm [Reply]

155: You mean wall candy?
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 1:43 pm [Reply]

#144 – Justafoob
Maybe it’s a setup for another Patterson dog to give up the ghost for April…
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 1:49 pm [Reply]

#83 Gadge, 89 benro, #104 foobar – It’s rough, because the meter has to be forced to the melody, but the Theme From Star Trek can actually be sung, with the right emphasis and if you run some of the words together…

These arrrRRRREâ€¦ the-lyrics-to-Star-Trek
They hurt liiiiIIIKEâ€¦ an-old-fashioned-cup-check

I knooOOOWâ€¦ his love is not very selective
Heâ€™ll screeEEEWâ€¦ other species and the Prime Directive

Beyond theeEEEEâ€¦ range-of-the-comet
These worrrrRRRDSâ€¦ do-cause-me-to-vomit

Just remember the words that Doctor McCoy said,
Heâ€™s dead Jim (yeah), heâ€™s real â€“ LY DEAD!
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 1:57 pm [Reply]

Re; Gigantor theme – it WAS the Dickies! Great – now I can’t GET RID OF IT! BIGGER THAN BIG! STRONGER THAN STRONG! READY TO FIGHT FOR RIGHT…AND AGAINST PLAYING BONANZA TOO LOUDLY IN GADGE’S NEIGHBORHOOD!
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 27th, 2007 at 2:00 pm [Reply]

#133 Ed — re today’s Shoe: They’re not cannibals, they’re just kinky. The eggs that we typically serve and eat are unfertilized, meaning that they’re vaguely analogous to menstrual blood.

Another amusing thing about today’s Shoe is that they take a little creative liberty that I’ve seen done elsewhere in the comic strip universe. Why on earth would the undertaker continue his conversation an hour later in a different location where nobody is listening?
Dr. Shrinker
February 27th, 2007 at 2:01 pm [Reply]

#119: “HEADS UP?” That HAD to be on purpose, right?
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 2:05 pm [Reply]

#159 Willethompson – those lyrics are precisely why I come here. I HAD to sing those aloud and I laughed like a FOOL the whole time.

Oh my word, I am going to need air, I think I laughed until my lungs left the building.
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

RMMD: If Rex is going to be Niki’s Big Brother, does that mean he gets to pin him down and snicker-snag on him? Put him in a tire and roll him down a hill? Wedgies? Swirlies? And as a little brother, does Niki get to tattle on Rex and hide out behind the sofa when Rex brings whatever that English chick’s name is for a little session of buttered scones?
Calico
February 27th, 2007 at 2:08 pm [Reply]

#137 – “Aimable” would mean “likeable” or “loveable” in French.
Why don’t they just speak Pidgin English? Hard to believe the Nedster had absolutely no French practice before being ferried off to Paris to be trained as the next O’Keeffe.
Oh, and Neddy, those taxes on the four Euro residences are going to hit you and your sister like a T-Bone crash on the highway. Get ready.
NEW-ME
February 27th, 2007 at 2:15 pm [Reply]

At least he was not cranking the music from “Leave It To Beaver”
Herb WOODley
February 27th, 2007 at 2:17 pm [Reply]

Dags is always leaving stuff in the beaver.
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

#166 – NEW – ME
Do you know the lyrics to that one?
Randy S
February 27th, 2007 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

What bothers me about Wizard of Id today, is Rodney’s reaction shot in the third panel, when it was he who made the weird “trans fat” comment in the first place.

The king’s comment was just a snarky, sarcastic reaction.. perfectly normal considering the context.
dimestore lipstick
February 27th, 2007 at 2:21 pm [Reply]

#88, Skullturf

Yes, they do make bags of M&Ms that big. Wal-Mart, a/k/a Plugger nirvana, sells a forty-five ounce bag. That’s 2.81 pounds of candy in a sack.
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

#168 Trotzenbonnie – That’s why they have Google…

Leave it to Beaver Theme Lyrics… yes, LYRICS
The Toy Parade by Dave Kahn, Melvyn Leonard and Mort Greene

Hey! Here they come with a rum-tee tum they’re having a toy parade.
A tin giraffe with a fife and drum is leading the kewpie parade.
A gingham cat in a soldier’s hat is waving a Chinese fan,
A plastic clown in a wedding gown is dancing with Raggedy Ann.

Fee fie fiddle dee dee they’re crossing the living room floor
Fee fie fiddle dee dee they’re up to the dining room door.

They call a halt for a choc’late malt or cookies and lemonade
Then off they go with a ho ho ho right back to their toy brigade.
Beauregard Bugleboy
February 27th, 2007 at 2:25 pm [Reply]

Bondanza! I’m thinking Danny DeVito as Goldfinger and Marilu Henner as Pussy Galore, too.
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 2:28 pm [Reply]

#171 – WilleT
I gave up googling for lent. And 2.81 pounds of candy in a sack.
Those lyrics are lame. I think we can do better.
gkl
February 27th, 2007 at 2:32 pm [Reply]

MW: I hope Ella has died. If so, she can hook up with Aldo in heaven and have lots of little mustachioed raisins.

Pluggers: I understand that the Pluggers live in a world where neither joy nor economics nor personal refinement have meaning, but still: How can that many food particles shoot out of his mouth while he’s eating M&Ms, for God’s sake.

And more importantly, when he finds those rotting M&M chunks on the floor in a month, is he going to declare them to be Plugger leftovers and snarf them up?
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 2:35 pm [Reply]

Okey Doke:
(”The Fishin’ Hole” by Everett Sloane, Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer) Lyrics
Song: The Andy Griffith Show Lyrics
Well, now, take down your fishin’ pole and meet me at The Fishin’ Hole,
We may not get a bite all day, but don’t you rush away.

What a great place to rest your bones and mighty fine for skippin’ stones,
You’ll feel fresh as a lemonade, a-settin’ in the shade.

Whether it’s hot, whether it’s cool, oh what a spot for whistlin’ like a fool.

What a fine day to take a stroll and wander by The Fishin’ Hole,
I can’t think of a better way to pass the time o’ day.

We’ll have no need to call the roll when we get to The Fishin’ Hole,
There’ll be you, me, and Old Dog Trey, to doodle time away.

If we don’t hook a perch or bass, we’ll cool our toes in dewy grass,
Or else pull up a weed to chaw, and maybe set and jaw.

Hangin’ around, takin’ our ease, watchin’ that hound a-scratchin’ at his fleas.

Come on, take down your fishin’ pole and meet me at The Fishin’ Hole,
I can’t think of a better way to pass the time o’ day.
The Great Ka-Floopa Gush
February 27th, 2007 at 2:35 pm [Reply]

Tuesday’s TDIET: It actually would be risky for someone who smokes, drinks, eats to much and gets no exercise to suddenly exert himself shoveling snow. His chances of a heart attack would skyrocket if he did what she asked.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
February 27th, 2007 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

There is a radio station that plays nothing but TV and movie themes. For 3 hours a week, anyway.

The show appears to have a good-sized Internet audience. The Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack Show can be heard Saturdays 9AM-noon Pacific time at http://www.kfjc.org.

What James Mongostein said about local radio in 118. Unfortunately very few communities in the US still have local radio. If you have it, support it. If not, I guess you have to listen on-line.
Eric
February 27th, 2007 at 2:38 pm [Reply]

You found “Cathy” amusing? Where is Josh and what have you done with him?

You’re not the Comics Curmudgeon I fell in love with!
smacky
February 27th, 2007 at 2:42 pm [Reply]

#118: James Mongostein: Your post has to be the basis for a TDIET:

“Y’ever notice how Jr. Lugbutt loves the fancy gadgits, his a,e,i,o, and uPods, but when it snows and he needs school closing info…?

Dat’s right, he’s tunin’ in to WPIG down the block!

(Urge to upload his butt to the moon…)

Ooooooooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
Perky Bird
February 27th, 2007 at 2:43 pm [Reply]

gkl (174) and Foobaphobe (148)—
Please note I already predicted Ella’s demise earlier today (148). So y’all owe me a Coke!
fizzy logic
February 27th, 2007 at 2:44 pm [Reply]

Wille – Trotzenbonnie – I’m not able to think of the tune for Leave it to Beaver at this moment – can you hum it for me? Thanks!
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 27th, 2007 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

While we’re on the subject, did y’all know that the theme from I Dream of Jeannie had lyrics?
Rarebit Fiend
February 27th, 2007 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

Josh, I think its more of a case that Cathy Guisewite actually had a somewhat funny idea. She of course beat it to death into a typical unfunny execution, but somehow you recognized that the seed of the idea actually had some potential to be funny.
Kate
February 27th, 2007 at 2:51 pm [Reply]

#161, Skullturf: “The eggs that we typically serve and eat are unfertilized, meaning that theyâ€™re vaguely analogous to menstrual blood.”

lalalalaNONONONOlalalaNONONONO *rocking back and forth with fingers in ears* lalalalaNONONONOlalalaNONONONO
Herro!
February 27th, 2007 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

Oh no! Now Baldo is getting in on the pun game!
TB Tabby
February 27th, 2007 at 2:55 pm [Reply]

129: And what’s worse, Prickly City is doing it too. The “good” conservative comic, ladies and gentlemen. An honor on the same level as “smartest roach in the motel.”
Calico
February 27th, 2007 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

#177 Some years ago Rhino records did an older (60’s & 70’s) TV show theme song compilation. Don’t know exactly what they chose.
All these ditties were tacky but are, sadly, burned into my brain – like Gilligan’s Island, Brady Bunch, The Munsters, Flintstones, et al.
Help, I am truly regressing!
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pm [Reply]

#181 –
Nope. Can’t hum it. For that tune I have to put my lips together and blow.
2.81 pounds of candy in a sack. I just like saying that. Thanks, Dimestore Lipstick!
Atomic Bird
February 27th, 2007 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

OK so I’m a day behind, but yesterday’s RMMD is just continuing the weird for me.

While Nikki begins to clean up the garage, June has a talk with Rex!

And she’s talking to Rex about being Nikki’s “Big Brother”?

Look out behind you, Nikki! Rex is closer than you think!
Tim Cavanaugh
February 27th, 2007 at 3:09 pm [Reply]

I actually thought Sunday’s A3G content dump was pretty graceful, setting up both the main story and the meanwhile-back-at-the-ranch in the same strip. But I may just be so dazzled by the bizarreness of the Ghost Ryder plot that everything seems impressive.

I haven’t read all the back comments, but are there any theories on where this insane storyline came from? Is Luann going to be caught up in the notorious market for fake Ryders? Is she using too much zinc white in her work? Too little saturated lipid? What madness is growing in Margaret Shulock’s fantasy world of lonely porcupines in upstate New York?
NEW-ME
February 27th, 2007 at 3:10 pm [Reply]

Damn Williethompson you beat me to it! I do know them!
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 3:11 pm [Reply]

Theme Music to Leave it To Beaver:

da DUT duh DUT Dut duh dut dadut, da duhduhdah dut da duhhhh
da DUT duh DUT Dut duh dut, dadut, da duhduhdah duh duh duh duuuuuhhh
(dadaDa Da DA!)Duh duh, dut dut dah duh, dut Dut DA Dut dut da duhhhh
Duh duh, dut dut dah duh, dut dut Dut Dut Dat DUH DUHH!!
da DUT duh DUT Dut duh dut dadut, da duhduhdah dut da duhhhh
da DUT duh DUT Dut duh dut, dadut, da duhduhdah duh duh duh duuuuuhhh

Have kazoo, will bore to tears!
(Quick! What’s Paladin’s lyrics? “Have Gun, Will Travel”?)
Ribinin
February 27th, 2007 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

#161, Skullturf: I guess, if you mean eggs that have been sitting around at a temperature of 98.6 for 2 weeks. Ewww
MonkeyHawk
February 27th, 2007 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

(doodlely-doo-duh-doo-duh-doo)
This the X-Files show.
(doodlely-doo-duh-doo-duh)
Where ever Mulder goes.
(doodlely-doo-duh-doo-duh)
He sees a UFO
(doodlely-doo-duh-doo-duh)
Or people all aglow.
(doodlely-doo-duh-doo-duh-doo)
This is the X-Files show…
(doodlely-doo-duh-doo-duh-doo-dah)
They glow…
MossMoses
February 27th, 2007 at 3:21 pm [Reply]

Now that Rex is going to be Niki’s big brother, do you all know that little brother (xiao didi) means shlong in mandarin? Does that make him Rex’s boy toy, then?
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 3:22 pm [Reply]

#186 TB Tabby – BWAHAHAHAHA! COTW!!
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 3:29 pm [Reply]

#173 Trotz – and by extension, TF, Fizzy, Red G, New-me, Moss, etc…

The Theme to Leave It To Beavers!

(TF, you seem to be laugh-prone today, so I’m posting a warning – do NOT read the last verse…)

Hey! Chewing trees with the greatest of ease, Castoria and her mate,
Making ponds with their piney fronds, theyâ€™re the beavers that Dick loves to hate!

They cut down the trees and dam up the creeks, Dick says they have to go,
Itâ€™s just the way we like to play on The Leave It To Beavers show!

Holy cripes! Lightning strikes! Lost Forest is going to char!
Hey, fool! Thereâ€™s a beaver pool! Those rodents deserve a cigar!

The fire is out without a doubt, the beavers are safe in their lodge,
And as a suitable penitence, Dick has to clean their garage!
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 3:30 pm [Reply]

#190 -
I’m betting on the fake Ryder plot. That was my theory a few days ago.
http://joshreads.com/?p=962#comment-183598
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

#197 Wille – where do you come up with this stuff? I couldn’t pull a parody out of my brain with heavy-duty hemostats and a pair of Percherons, and there you go tripping them off your tongue!

And I made certain no drinks were in the vicinity when I read it. Good thing too, because it put the HA in Bwahahaha!! XD
Perky Bird
February 27th, 2007 at 3:38 pm [Reply]

# 198-Trotzenbonnie-

If there is a fake Ryder plot approaching in A3G, do you think they’ll call in Slylock Fox to solve the mystery? Maybe the carrot-stealing, towel-wearing bull and the skanky lady cat could be involved, as well…
I definitely think comics could be punched up with frequent crossovers.
MossMoses
February 27th, 2007 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

I have two competent doctors treating me now (unlike the malpracticing Vietnamese quack, Dr. Tran, who needed telephone tech support just to keep from killing me).

If they are really so competent, why did Mary Worth call Dr. Ling for advice rather than the Corey spawn? Their sudden renewed interest in Doc Jeff, given their total disinterest when they had not heard from him in several months is curious. They are gold digging will grubbers out for his money. Maybe they are trying to kill him. The point in a previous post about Mary Worth being a control freak is spot on. She meddles not to help people but rather to have them do her biddy bidding.
NEW-ME
February 27th, 2007 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

Willie ….. That was awsome! (Trying to keep from laughing out loud so no one knows I am not working…)
David C
February 27th, 2007 at 4:00 pm [Reply]

The “Leave it to Beaver” theme actually has lyrics too! (Though in this case, I think it’s more like they took the tune of a pre-existing non-Beaver-related song called “The Toy Parade”):
http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/leave.htm

“The Odd Couple” theme has some terrible lyrics too, ones that actually make it sound like they’re… THAT kind of couple!
http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/odd.htm
gkl
February 27th, 2007 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

Perky Bird: I wasn’t predicting, merely hoping. But I’ll still send you a Coke if it’s true.

On the other hand, if, say, Ella and Mary for some reason get into a Matrix-style Battle Royale to the Death, I’ll be so blissed out you could probably get me to send you a Prius.
BJ Gumby
February 27th, 2007 at 4:04 pm [Reply]

MW- Those squiggly lines eminating from Cedric’s head– does that mean his Butler Sense is tingling?
BJ Gumby
February 27th, 2007 at 4:05 pm [Reply]

D’oh! I meant JP, not MW!
Moon Mullins
February 27th, 2007 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

I think I’m seeing some of what Dingo was referring to today, in the tone of some postings. Maybe not so much racism/homophobia as hatred for anyone who doesn’t think a certain way. Anyone who doesn’t believe in the Al Gore version of global warming is an asshole? Anyone to the right of the political spectrum is a roach?

I thought politics was to be reserved for other forums or the cockpit. Remember, you were always told not to discuss religion and politics if you didn’t want to aggravate people — besides, there is plenty more to hit on in the comics!
Perky Bird
February 27th, 2007 at 4:07 pm [Reply]

gkl—Ooh, I like the idea of a Matrix-style battle between Mary and Ella! Although I’m not sure I’d really want to see either of them in black skin-tight outfits…*shudder*
Could someone with artistic skills around here come up with a picture of that?
Nyssa23
February 27th, 2007 at 4:10 pm [Reply]

(reposted from the dying end of yesterday’s thread, please pardon the re-snarkage)

JP: Sure, youâ€™ve heard of The Prince and the Pauper, but are you ready for the tale ofâ€¦The Spencer and the Skank?

MT: The ubiquiducks behind Sallyâ€™s head serve as a sort of Greek chorus to remind us that in Lost Forest, crime does not pay. Unless you accept righteous ass-kicking as legal tender, in which case, yes, it does.

MW: When did Jeffâ€™s daughter turn into Edna Mode?

RMMD: Iâ€™m kind of alarmed by the circles behind the Morgans. This can only mean one of three things:

1. Caviar is coming out of Rexâ€™s ears;
2. Juneâ€™s â€œToday Spongeâ€ is backing up;
3. Sarah got bored and decided to see how much bubble bath could fit in the tub, creating a mighty flood that will wash away the pathetic charade of her parentsâ€™ marriage.

No matter which it is, we win!
Krazy Kat
February 27th, 2007 at 4:17 pm [Reply]

TDIET- I have mild dyslexia so I read that as Castrata and Afro!

That would be a wild hip-hop duo! Oh, Yeeeaah!
Krazy Kat
February 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

WOW! 210 comments all ready and I’m just getting here! This is what happens when I go to work and actually do what everyone thinks I do.
NEW-ME
February 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

And I always thought the Pluggers anti-depressant was Nick at Night
Weasel Boy
February 27th, 2007 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

Why do the characters is Cathy feel they have to stick their fingers in the air whenever they make a point? They’re not addressing Parliament, for God’s sake.
Dennis Jimenez
February 27th, 2007 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

Re: 212 – I always thought the Plugger’s anti-depressant was Canadian Lord Calvert’s.
Mariettan
February 27th, 2007 at 4:32 pm [Reply]

I looked around and I don’t think this super-hot news item has hit the CC comments yet, so I’ll post an editorial comment that appeared in my local daily paper, the Marietta [GA] Daily Journal, this morning:

A FLOOD of e-mails and letters protesting the insensitivity of a cartoon in the “Funky Winkerbean” comic strip has caused the MDJ management to replace it with the cartoon “Spiderman.”

The disputed panel that appeared Feb. 22 showed a soldier in Iraq being blown up by an IED. It drew such comments as “What sick mind finds this funny and puts it in ‘the funnies’? I think it is disgusting.”

Now, I’m trying to determine the best way to craft a letter-to-the-editor in response to this editorial gem. How does one properly explain that the fact that Funky is “where joy goes to die” is precisely what makes it so absurdly hysterical?

(For the entire editorial, click here: http://www.mdjonline.com/articles/2007/02/27/94/10249220.txt )
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 4:37 pm [Reply]

C(MD) Why oh why, when someone in Cathy talks, they hold their finger in the air like a doctor about to give a rectal exam?
Why does she line up three people in disco-night fever poses whenever people are supposed to shout something at the same time?
Why do people’s mouths have that weird little shape, like a box of juicy juice that’s been drained of liquid and it’s all concaved?

Okay, I’ll admit, today’s Cathy wasn’t all that high on the Suck-o-meter. Coming from me, that’s a big BIG concession.

Fat Lazy Cat Well okay, Garfield was not so bad either, it made me grin and no, it was not a Funkystein smirk either, it was a bona fide grin.

And…and FBoFW wasn’t terrible, in fact it had its moment but I think it’s mainly to make us forget John’s creepy performance last Saturday. Eh, I’m so cynical.

no trifecta after all. [smirk] [slaps self]
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 4:37 pm [Reply]

What kind of sick mind goes looking for humor in Funky Winkerbean?

What kind of sick mind replaces Funky Winkerbean with Spider-Man?

And what kind of sick mind spends so damn much time thinking about the comics, anyway?

Ahhhhh. . . never mind that last one.
woolery
February 27th, 2007 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

I like theme songs:

Wheel — of — fort — une spinning,
Got a chance of winning
Lots of money and a car!

Vanna turns the letters
Sajak soothes the fretters
Guests are all go-getters
Who like puz — zles.

Come and watch us solvin’
See the games evolvin’
Win a trip with golfin’
And free airfare.

Well, that’s enough of that.
Foobaphobe
February 27th, 2007 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

Nancy:

I’m increasingly worried about the state of comic manhood. Aunt Fritzi can’t get a date, but Liz Patterson is a high-powered guy magnet, with the ability to attract guys from the Arctic Circle to Ottowa to PEI. It just proves that this is a fallen world.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

#127 Wille, you the man!!! I know it’s a lot to ask, but could you write some lyrics for the theme song to “Sea Hunt”? (maybe work in something about Dan Thomas to keep it relevant) I always thought that was one of the best teevee theme songs in the history of ever.

Anyway, how did this thing get…oh, yeah…Bonanza Dagwood.
Krazy Kat
February 27th, 2007 at 4:56 pm [Reply]

Funky Winkerbean has me totally perplexed today. Is that Wally, back from Iraq or afganistan or wherever the hell went? Why is he wearing earrings and talking about chemo? Did he get a lungful of the depleted uranium with which we are covering the country?
reader-who-posts
February 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

Blondie: Dagwood’s dog shows no happiness at his being home and seems to be hiding behind Blondie. Probably afraid of being turned into a sandwich.

A3G: NOW we know how ghosts have sex.

Cathy: How does someone exclaim dramatically with an upraised arm if that hand is holding a cup of coffee? Did they slowly and carefully raise their arms over their heads, or just throw their coffee all over Cathy? I hope it was the latter.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

Sorry, #197-
“If the nines, Turn out to be twos.
Please excuse”
cheech wizard
February 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

219 – (Snort!) Great one, Foobaphobe.

Although have you noticed the other women in Nancy? Aunt Fritzie has some serious competion there. Though it’s highly doubtful that Nancy will ever ripen into anything even approaching similar condition. Good thing she’s already dating a bum.
AppleGirl
February 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

171 – willethompson – Oh, those Leave it to Beaver lyrics are so charming! A throwback to the innocent 1930s.

I especially like: “Then off they go with a ho ho ho right back to their toy brigade.”

Oh. Just realized that’s kind of dirty.
{sigh} Never mind.
Eric G
February 27th, 2007 at 5:06 pm [Reply]

Wait. That Cathy strip is a rerun? No wonder the art looked so primitive.
reader-who-posts
February 27th, 2007 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

#215: I feel bad for the people of Marietta who were offended by Funky Winkerbean blowing up Wally into pieces, albeit not for real. They obviously aren’t regular readers. As a regular reader, Batiuk could have shown Wally being castrated and forced to eat his own testicles and I wouldn’t have been the least bit surprised or offended.
Saxman
February 27th, 2007 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

215 Mariettan

Wow! What a golden marketing opportunity for Spiderman!

Their new motto can be:

Read SPIDERMAN. More sensitive than Funky Winkerbean.
Saxman
February 27th, 2007 at 5:30 pm [Reply]

215 Mariettan

OK, upon reflection, I wonder of the citizens of Marietta even know that “no soldiers were killed in the drawing of this cartonn,” and that it was actually a depiction of a videogame? Did the publisher’s pull the plug before that was made clear?

Part 2 of my reflection is that I’m betting there are a bunch more folks in Marietta who buy violent videogames than who read the funnies.

I’m not sure where I am going with this, but it is just wrong. I can think of a bunch of good reasons to axe FW, but not this one. it’s like learning Osama died slipping on soap in the shower.

Maybe I just need my ghostly muse to enfuse me with energy.
majolo
February 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pm [Reply]

Ooh, somebody make up lyrics to the theme from 24, please!
Len
February 27th, 2007 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

This morning on National Public Radio they had a story about a top-class hospital in Bangkok Thailand, to which many Americans have been resorting, paying less than 10 percent the fees American doctors and hospitals charge.

Leave it to Mary Worth to move Doctor Jeff back to California, where he’ll have to pay through the nose for his recovery!
MossMoses
February 27th, 2007 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

231. Do you see a Dianne Rehm – Mary Worth parallel?

Somehow I imagine Mary Worth’s voice coming out all strangled and spasmodic dysphonic sounding like Dianne Rehm…

“Talk about Vietnamese quacks”.
PeteMoss
February 27th, 2007 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

Nightline theme: Here’s Ted COP-pel…ay-Ya-TOla.

Sixty-minutes theme: tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick.
Ted
February 27th, 2007 at 5:46 pm [Reply]

I really, really, don’t want to know what Mary can’t wait for that she has to shoo Dr. Jeff’s kids out of the room for.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 5:47 pm [Reply]

Here’s my little “The Rebel” theme song parody:

Dagwood Bumstead, was a rebel,
He cranked, the Bonanza theme.
And Dagwood Bumstead, got a ticket,
For sound that was extreme.

He said Geez Louise
Yeah, GEEZ LOUISE!,
He scared Daisy, she knows he’s crazy
Where Blondies chair faces away from the tv’s glare.

(Away, away, away to make a sandwich.)

That’s all I got. I really wanted to work in the line, verbatim “He was panther quick and leather tough “…but I lack the skillz.
Mariettan
February 27th, 2007 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

#229 Saxman

What can I say about the Marietta paper? That it runs Ann Coulter’s column? Does that help shed light on the humor spectrum of the average MDJ reader? The MDJ did run the punchline strip, but I imagine that by that time, the offended readers who sent a FLOOD (emphasis theirs) of letters to the paper had banished Funky and his America-hatin’ ways from their lives forever. Plus, the name of the strip includes the word “funky” and you know that can’t mean that it’s up to anything good and wholesome. Dagnabbit, you dang hippies and your “funky” this and “groovy” that! (Although, I also don’t see anything particularly funky about cancer, dismemberment, MIA soldiers, and marching bands.)

Marietta is about 15 minutes outside of Atlanta, and I take the MDJ and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution daily, and the New York Times on the weekends, and I can’t believe I’m admitting this, but the main reason I take the MDJ is because it runs (ran, I guess) FW, and the AJC doesn’t, and when I am reading the comics in the morning I am both too lazy and impatient to read the strip online. (The MDJ also runs Snuffy Smith and Marvin, but not FOOB, so take that as you will.)
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

#233 PeteMoss-Wow!, that is so freakin weird! I have been singing that tune in my head for a long time! Mine is “Here’s Ted Koppel…Ya da ta ta ta da.”
SmartPeopleOnIce
February 27th, 2007 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

Anyone got any John Cage lyrics?
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm [Reply]

#238 SPOI –

. . . o o o O O O O O O O O O o o o . . .
Angry Beaver
February 27th, 2007 at 6:20 pm [Reply]

A3G – Since Albert first appeared, I’d harbored a hope that this would turn out to be a Scooby-Doo plot. Sadly, it’s looking less and less likely.

Still…LuAnn could be…under…deep hypnosis! Yeah! It’s a plot by…….Eric! I guess. A plot to get her to………………. paint…lots of…orchids?

Oh, BOXCAR! I can see the ramp up the shark tank from here!
fizzy logic
February 27th, 2007 at 6:22 pm [Reply]

#222 – reader-who-posts – I don’t know why, but your two alternatives of how their coffee cups got into the air in Cathy sent me into a fit of giggles. I’m still giggling. I’m supposed to be working. Thanks.

#192 – True Fable – That’s it! The theme song to Leave it to Beaver. Now I can read wille’s lyrics and have it make sense in my brain. I appreciate you always willing to help a gal out, such a gentleman.
Catya
February 27th, 2007 at 6:51 pm [Reply]

FOOB crossed the line to advocating real danger today. It can’t be advisable to take extended walks in Canada in February, it just can’t. Add the icy chill Death’s digits stroke ’round the souls of maniacal punners, and John, April and the Patterson doggage will descend quickly into hypothermia.

Stop cheering, all of you!
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 6:51 pm [Reply]

#238 SPOI- Did John Cage write the music for the KNX News Radio sigalert segment? The lyrics for that are: BOOP-BOOP-BOOP-BOOP-boop-boop-boop-boop, BOOP-BOOP-BOOP-BOOP-boop-boop-boop-boop.
Grumpy Fiend
February 27th, 2007 at 6:52 pm [Reply]

Funny, What I usually call a “Secret Shame” refers to some fetishes that I have.
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 6:57 pm [Reply]

#197 – Willethompson
Grazie! Bravissimo! The last verse is a complex, multi-layered gem that I must savor. You had fun with that one, didn’t you.
MossMoses
February 27th, 2007 at 7:04 pm [Reply]

244. GF: If you reveal what those fetishes are they will no longer be shameful…or secret
Ribinin
February 27th, 2007 at 7:13 pm [Reply]

#?? somebody : It is not what is said, IMO, rather how it is said. Snarking requires an exaggerated point of view along with willingness to focus on irrelevant detail (not unlike politics).

If somebody calls me a crackerAmerican x-chromosomer here it is good for a chuckle. In other circumstances and other words there could be a scene and/or fight.
PeteMoss
February 27th, 2007 at 7:17 pm [Reply]

243. Red, I believe John Cage did write “Test of the Emergency Broadcast System.” The lyrics go:

Kiiiiiisssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Yourrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
AAAAAAAAAAAsssssssssssssssssss.
Good
bye.
Good
bye.
Byyyyye.

Not that good. But then, it’s only a test.
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 7:22 pm [Reply]

#248 Pete -

What if it had been an actual emergency?

Huh? What then?

Why doesn’t anybody think about the children?
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 7:25 pm [Reply]

#249 –
Yeah. If I’m going to go to all the trouble of kissing my own ass it had better be the real thing!
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 7:27 pm [Reply]

#250 – Tb

Yeah, special occasions only. People gotta have standards, dammit.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 7:28 pm [Reply]

SPOI- Mr. Cage also invented the toothpaste-flavored pizza.
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 7:31 pm [Reply]

John Cage gotta brand-new house, an’ it’s made outta rattlesnake hide!
PeteMoss
February 27th, 2007 at 7:31 pm [Reply]

249. Uncle Lumpy, Cage may have, indeed, written “Actual Emergency.” I haven’t heard it performed, but I’d trust the lyrics are pretty much the same but sung with more urgency. I’d let Mariah Carey sing it. I think she could pull it off. Then again, Britney Spears seems more disaster-like.
Fried Froid w/ Squid
February 27th, 2007 at 7:34 pm [Reply]

Nancy The dialoge in a fourth panel would be:

“Jeezus Fritzi, don’t let them see your grotesque niece on your first date!”
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 7:38 pm [Reply]

#254 Pete -

I guess in an Actual Emergency, you get your choice of sirens.

I choose Madame Cedric!
PeteMoss
February 27th, 2007 at 7:38 pm [Reply]

255. Fried Froid — Keep the little pinecone in backyard, maybe.
PeteMoss
February 27th, 2007 at 7:45 pm [Reply]

Sunday A3G. Fourth panel. I hope that’s the picture Luann uses on her drivers license. What a bulb.
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 27th, 2007 at 7:49 pm [Reply]

Gabe 105 – it wasn’t. It was a freefloating rant – that’s why I didn’t post it in response to anyone. Sorry if you got hit by a sidestream of spittle on that one.
PeteMoss
February 27th, 2007 at 7:51 pm [Reply]

A3G. How come the color gnomes can’t remember what color Luann’s blouse is from one day to the next? She really is a forgettable character, isn’t she? Even the gnomes don’t give a [SATURN].
ohgrl
February 27th, 2007 at 7:51 pm [Reply]

129 Hogen Mogen: Replace “believe global warming is caused by humans” with “believe Nancy Pelosi wants a superplane to ferry her libr’ul hippy comrades” and you have a Dittohead.

Kick me to the cockpit if you must, but I had to point it out.
Virginia
February 27th, 2007 at 7:55 pm [Reply]

Josh–I have to say, I laughed too, because I have used that “it’s too dark” excuse many many times. After laughing, I realized I had something in common with a Cathy comic, and tried to justify it by rationalizing that my neighborhood really isn’t one where you’d go running at night alone. However, my rationalizations made as much sense as…well, anything Cathy Guiswite writes, so shame on me.

This shame has yet to motivate me into exercising as of yet, so I guess it’s more embarrassment.
Gg83
February 27th, 2007 at 7:59 pm [Reply]

Several people noted Josh’s typo of “Bondanza,” which made me wonder if that would be the Bonanza theme done in the style of a James Bond theme, or vice versa. And then this popped into my brain:

Goldfinger, Goldfinger, Goldfinger, Goldfinger, Goldfingaaaaaaaaaa!
He is the man, he’s the man with the Midas touch, oh yes he is!

Though I’m not sure if it works for anyone besides me.
Josh
February 27th, 2007 at 8:06 pm [Reply]

I’m assuming that nobody’s going to read this or anything at this point, but “Bondanza” is my mother and stepfather’s last name. Unusually spelled words + Josh posting at quarter to four in the morning = slips in spelling.

Josh
Elegist
February 27th, 2007 at 8:07 pm [Reply]

Am I the only one who consistantly misreads “Catastra” as “Castrata”? Actually, I rather like it that way. A simple rearrangement of letters and TDIETers will never breed!
Fred P.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:10 pm [Reply]

248-

Actually, that’s from Sun Ra’s “Nuclear War”, isn’t it?
willethompson
February 27th, 2007 at 9:24 pm [Reply]

#253 Uncle Lumpy – Whoooooo do you looooooove? (the greatest two-chord song ever written)
doug rogers
February 27th, 2007 at 9:32 pm [Reply]

fulla beans fulla beans fulla beans fulla beans
Garbanzos!
fulla beans fulla beans fulla beans fulla beans
eat ‘em every day
fulla beans fulla beans fulla beans fulla beans
Garbanzos!
fulla beans fulla beans fulla beans fulla beans
Don’t get in my way!
andreavis
February 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pm [Reply]

No one’s probably reading this thread by now, but it looks like no one’s mentioned the lyrics to Bonanza? I don’t know all of them, but in the Mitchell episode of MST3K, Crow and Tom sing the first line, “It’s all right if we pick a little fight, Bo-nan-ZA!” I’d like to think that’s was Dagwood was was singing at the top of his lungs when he was ticketed.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 9:43 pm [Reply]

Hi Josh. Didn’t you post on the (I think it’s called)”Bad Band Names” website- “ExtravaDanza”? I might be wrong because of the Dad-burn rheumatiz medsin I was chugging at the time.
Josh
February 27th, 2007 at 9:51 pm [Reply]

Red #270 — Ha! Yes, I did post that. It was Tony Danza’s one-man show, which was playing in Vegas the first time I was there (which would have been, lessee, March of 1998 — jeez, time flies). All these years later, I still regret not having gone.

Josh
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 9:55 pm [Reply]

#192 TF-That could also be “Mission: Impossible”
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 10:12 pm [Reply]

Josh # well, Josh: Hey! thanks, man. Wouldn’t it be cool if one of the ‘mudges actually saw that show, and could give us their impression of that…that…ah, yes, EXTRAVADANZA!
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pm [Reply]

#241 fizzy logic – that’s me, the Gentleman! Here, allow me to ~~take your watch~~ take your coat. ;)

I had an album – I say “had” because garage sales happen – by the “Bonanza gang” in which the cast sang all sorts of hideous stylings on it. One of them was the theme song. Back then everyone and their dog in show business had to make an album, it was as if “Hey, Bobby Darin can sing and act, we expect everyone to be a freakin’ genius.”

Loren Greene could sing. The others, ehhh…. for singers they were pretty good actors, if you get me. Naturally, I have purged the lyrics to the theme from my mind with heavy applications of booze and repeated exposure to M*A*S*H reruns.
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

MI is:

DUNT DUNT da da DUNT DUNT da da DUNT DUNT da da DUNT DUNT da da

doodle-dooo, doodle-dooo, doodle-dooo, duh Dunt!

and on and on until Tom Cruise starts couch jumping.
heynoni
February 27th, 2007 at 10:27 pm [Reply]

How about a new section where we try to guess the tune via posts? Here’s one…

….dung…dung…dung…dung..dung…dung..dung..dung…

(The first two bars of “The Rose”)
King Folderol
February 27th, 2007 at 10:34 pm [Reply]

#33 – I remember hearing about the O’Reilly thing as well. So this is plausible. It’s just not funny.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 10:54 pm [Reply]

I wrote a song once upon a fish, and I titled it: “Doodle Ding Dong Snoopy Sanchez, You Wiped Your Huevos Off With Your CalceterÃos”—Don’t bother googling it, it never made the pop lexicon.
alamo
February 27th, 2007 at 10:56 pm [Reply]

theme song for fw — albinoni’s adagio
da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da
da da da da
too tired to think of others – go for it.
alamo
February 27th, 2007 at 10:59 pm [Reply]

# 278 – i wish i had thought of that.
i would have thought of that but i had to flush my stash when there came a sudden knockin’ on the door.
still tired.
g’ night!
Dustin Dewind
February 27th, 2007 at 11:23 pm [Reply]

Well, I was eatin’ some chop suey
with a lady from St. Louie
When there sudden comes a knockin’ at the door
And the knocker he says “honey,
Roll this rocker out some money
Or your daddy shoots a baddy to the floor.”
alamo
February 27th, 2007 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

#281 — go-go pogo! long live the memory of walt kelly!!
whoamItoday?
February 28th, 2007 at 1:50 am [Reply]

274-true fable mentioned M*A*S*H

so now the thread is probably dead anyway, here’s hoping everyone else weeps over these theme lyrics

Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see…

[chorus]:

That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.

I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it’s too late, and…

[Chorus]

The game of life is hard to play
I’m gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I’ll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.

[Chorus]

The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I’m beat
and to another give my seat
for that’s the only painless feat.

[Chorus]

MASH
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn’t hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger…watch it grin, but…

[Chorus]

A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
‘is it to be or not to be’
and I replied ‘oh why ask me?’

‘Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
…and you can do the same thing if you choose. (courtesy http://www.culttelly.co.uk)
r., j.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:11 am [Reply]

The cops in Seattle do ticket for noisy car radio music. Guess what kind of music. Guess the race of the ticketees.
jasmt
February 28th, 2007 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

You haven’t lived until you hear Bonanza in German. Now thats awsome.
Poteet
February 28th, 2007 at 4:51 pm [Reply]

# 283 — Thanks, whoamItoday. I once looked up those lyrics online, laboring under the delusion that they had to be good because I really like the melody, so it followed that I would really like the lyrics, right? Not exactly. I mean I’ve read WORSE lyrics, but these kinda sound to me like they were written in the wee hours after a long night of smokin’ wacky tobacky. Of course I like MACARTHUR PARK, so that’s what my critical judgment is worth.
Poteet
February 28th, 2007 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

And if I weren’t catching up on comments, I’d be swimming the English Channel. Bwahahahaha! Or not.
kostia
March 12th, 2007 at 4:03 am [Reply]

Say, Applegirl, I could really use a townhouse in Northern Virginia. If you weren’t kidding.

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